Winning Over Negative Emotions

The crux of Yoga is to keep the mind under control. If not controlled, the darkness of the mind will not let us remain in peace and if controlled there will be light everywhere and we will find ways to control stress and experience joy.                           Patanjali

We act according to our past conditioning. Five senses have their likes and dislikes. The root of negative emotions lies here. If you have become a negative thinker, this is because you have not cared and taken time to train your mind to focus on the good. The mind is a wonderful servant  but a terrible master.

Negative thoughts leads to overthinking and the mind is under chaos. It not only affects our mind but also results in chronic diseases. The source of negative emotions is toxic thoughts - lust, greed, anger, infatuation, pride and jealousy. Don't let these toxic thoughts drain your precious mental energy. 

Your mind is a garden. Nurture it with positive thoughts and don't let weeds - toxic thoughts take the roots in your mind. Stand guard at the gate of your garden and let only best information enter. Don't allow worry to  rob your mind of life force. No matter what happens in your life, you alone have the power to choose your response. When you have the habit of finding positive in every circumstances, your life will move into higher dimension. You will unlock the true potential of your mind to create the magical life you deserve. 

Divinise your life by doing your actions as a service to God. This is a profound way to avoid negative emotions. The other way is to Witness. Whatever you experience through your senses are the objects of your perceptions. You are different from the object of your experience. You are the awareness in which thoughts, feelings, perceptions arise and illuminates the mind. For example, when you are angry, you will feel that you are the one who is experiencing anger. Anger is the  object of your experience. You are not one with it. This applies to all emotions-positive or  negative. 

When you are not overwhelmed by happiness, you will not be reactive towards sorrows. When you disassociate yourself from emotional drama, you will not be stressed in any circumstances. You will be calm and stable. A stable mind is the key to happier and healthier life. You go here and there hankering after happiness. Once you know that happiness dwells within you in its purest form, you will not hanker after it. You have no control over external factors, because they are variable. That which is constant  is within you. Meditate daily for a few minutes to  connect with your own self and find peace within. 

Once your life is your expression of blissfulness, you will not be in conflict with anyone.                                           Sadhguru 

Living In Harmony With Mother Nature

Nature reminds us how to be in harmony with life itself. 

Indic culture venetrates the Earth as one's own mother. We have not acknowledged nature's needs and concerns and accord to the highest respect and honour just as the mother is respected universally in all the traditions and cultures.Like a mother, nature nourishes all living beings with food, water and shelter without discrimination. 

Nature reveals a beautiful part of ourselves, we cannot find anywhere else. It is the greatest place to cleanse and heal. We can see the synergy, the whole nature is imbibed within itself. We can see this when we are we are in harmony within ourselves. People who are not in harmony within themselves can never be in harmony with the environment around them. 

Indic culture upholds a great deal of respect for nature. Infact, we used to worship the 5 elements of nature - earth, air, water, ether and fire. Today these principles seems to be forgotten and there is wide-scale exploitation of natural resources. Instead of caring about the long term wellbeing of the world, the environment is brazenly being destroyed and serious implications of it are clearly visible in the way weather patterns are changing,  species and habitats are getting depleted  and new diseases are developing. This is why ,the world is suffering from incurable disease like Covid-19. 

The cause of all physical pollution is polluted consciousness,  because our minds are polluted with  unsatisfiable toxic greed through exploiting nature. The Vedic solution is to learn how to be content and satisfied with simple living and high thinking. We should transform ourselves from being little Ravanas to becoming little Hanumans from exploiting nature for our selfish motives to protecting and honour mother nature  for divine purposes. 

Like our bodies, mother nature also heals herself. But if exploited repeatedly, and toxins are injected into her, then she can't heal herself and the result is serious diseases and disasters. We should strive to conserve our water resources and forest cover. Our body is made up of nature. Therefore, we feel bliss when we are connected with nature. It is in nature we discover multiple forms of life - and learn how humans can live in harmony with them. But it is this simple discovery that we lose as our lives grow more complex. There is no greater truth  today than the fact that we need to create a new world determined not by greed, but by its sustainability and simplicity. 

We must akin to our childhood selves, for whom a walk on the hill  was a  vibrant thrill, a voyage into a new world of flora and fauna. The more profound way to save our ecology is to clean the ecology of our consciousness.